Hi Tim

Just got to see your reply and also Ralphs.  He's correct in that there is no space between '/' & 'Home': I've already reduced half of the small swap file.  I've been told not to try to move the front of Home forward as it's very risky and Gparted warns of this.  If I was redoing the partitioning then I could give root a larger space.  When I did original install I gave it 20GiB as I had never used more than 13/14GiB.  Also I'd like to know why this is happening, i.e. have I got a rough program running 'frequently' which is fill up the space? (It's not only on Lily space as it's happening on my Home as well).  The only additional Programmes add to the clean install have been Digikam & Hardinfo.  Those two progs have never given any problems before.  When I've made some space it appears to be partially used up immediately without running anything else - see previous comments. I see Ralph has given me two other commands to do which I'll do later and report back.

C A Wills
On 28/01/2021 20:17, Tim wrote:
Hi Clive

Can I ask why you cant reduce your home partition and then extend the root into the free space ?


Tim H

On 27/01/2021 14:37, C Wills wrote:
Sorry the original copy was sent from another email address which is not authorised by DLUG system. Sending from the correct address, hope you don't get it twice!!
Clive

Hi All

Yesterday my wife started her PC and got a warning notice saying there was on 1GiB on space left on the 'root' partition.
Checking today the following was reported:-

sda1  Ext4 / size - 24.5GiB,  Used - 22.7GiB (93%)  Free - 1.71GiB (7%).

There is plenty of space for the /Home  partition but no space on sda1 and I can't extend it. I checked with the disk analyser tool and it showed that the 'var' file has used most of the space; it's full of Flatpack folders. All the other folders look OK. I remember seeing a tool that can 'clean' folder/discs but can't find it now.  Thought it may be the temp folder fill up the space but that looks OK. Can't work out what has happened to fill the 'root' folder, no extra software installed and last time I looked it was only about 50% full.

If I don't do something soon then the PC will lock up And she will do her 'nut' (doesn't like computers  that go wrong!)


What's happening please and can I recover the space.  All above by using a GUI desktop, Mint 19.2 Cinnamon.


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